More About Elephant Surveys, Poaching and What Hunters Should Expect This Season(posted March - 2014)

By Barbara Crown, Editor

There is lots of news from Tanzania this month, starting with the elephant poaching that we highlighted in our January issue with a report by Rolf Baldus. At the Safari Club International Convention in Las Vegas last month, I sat with Assistant Director of Tanzania's Wildlife Division Jafari R. Kideghesho, Ph.D. and Director General of Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute Simon Mduma, Ph.D. As we reported in our January issue, the Selous Game Reserve is down to 13,000 elephant and conservationists fear a similar decline in other areas.

Mduma says four censes were conducted last year. The northern population - Kilimanjaro, Amboseli, Mkomazi - is "OK." These are areas along the Tanzanian/Kenyan corridor, where there is a lot of traffic from general tourism......